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Show . , 4 Ruminatin Jf Roundabout In which Ruminator proposes to craam a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy tiiciii, and fire a hot-shot now and then while s;iid Kuminai or can enjoy seeing the spark.-fly. spark.-fly. An editor of one of our ex-! changes cites, as the saddest sight to him, the person who thinks he or she can sing. In our opinion the saddest sight, on an occasion J of this kind, is not the person who thinks he or she can sing but thei audience on whom the singing j is inflicted. As a rule the singer! who erroneously thinks he or she can sing is happiest while trying to sing. It those European powers dread war as much as they say they do,j why keep their warships nosing around where the trouble is thickest? thick-est? When a big local bully was accusing ac-cusing one of our timid friends of hiding behind his wife's skirts, the timid soul very properly asked: "What skirts?" Little Boy "Come quick, Mr. Policeman! There's a man been fightin' my father for half an hour." Officer "Why didn't you tell me before ?" Hoy "Cause father was gettin' the best of it until a minuteago." A reader of this paper tells us that he believes his young son has' the ear marks of a cracking good doctor. His penmanship is the despair de-spair of his teaclaer. The world record for distance covered by an arrow shot from a bow is 478 yards. |